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Kentridge’s signature practice is to draw an image in charcoal, photograph it, and then repeatedly erase, redraw, rephotograph it, and then animate it on film. Felix in Exile is the fifth film in…
Contributor:
William Kentridge
Places:
Johannesburg, South Africa
Date:
1994
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Born in Aldgate, London, bare-knuckled pugilist Daniel Mendoza was the first Jew in England to become heavyweight champion, a title that he defended twice before losing it to John Jackson on a ninth…
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Artist Unknown
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London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
ca. 1790
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In 1942, Arthur Szyk produced this poster, called Tears of Rage, for a series of pageants mounted by Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht and militant Zionist leader Peter Bergson to protest inaction…
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Arthur Szyk
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1943
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The violence of the Passover song “Had Gadya” (“Who Knows One”) clearly spoke to this illustrator’s sense of horror following World War I.
Contributor:
Menachem Birnbaum
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1920